PhatVR6

my mate absolutes hates my corrado. he reckons that from the front it's one of the ugliest cars he's ever seen. him and other mates constantly refer to it as "the passat" or "the polo". never the corrado.

wheels might not be getting changed after all, my mate's decided he prefers the sport designs stripped the Quaife dog box today for an inspection, clean out and to swap the bell housings over. check out the size of the teeth on that!! it's gonna be loud :-) nice and clean too, which is a good sign. Diff carrier bearings are all I can see that have noticeable wear on them. time to fit the peloquin diff and VR6 syncro bell housing and get the sodding thing bolted ot the engine and in the car. The engine is actually back in temporarily. BEst place to put it as it takes up so much sodding room sat in the middle of the garage floor.

only shot I have ot it. it's pretty big, might fill that hole.

i might be able to help you out here. My Corrado has a glass tilt and slide roof, but iot's not factory. It was fittted 2 weeks before the car was even registered. I've taking it out, got another roofskin to go on it. Would you be interested in it?

welcome

not unique on a corrado though, as seen on the famous UPS corrado

just wait unti i've sold off some of these parts and actually have some money to start buying stuff again, then the real progress will start. At the moment I'm just messing about seeing what I can do. I even had the mad idea of bolting the VR up to the box whilst it's still got the 4cyl bell housng on it. thus leaning the VR back in the engine bay, like a 4 cyl, instead of leanign forwards. The ides being to get the weight off the nose of the car by having the engine closer to the bulkhead, touring car style. I'd have had to cut off the oil pump drive off the back fo the block and dry sumped it to get the height down, but after looking into it i just can't get the transfer box in place. the OSF drive shaft goes through the back of the block and timing chain cover so it can't be done without altering the timgin chains, which I don't want to get into. Still might look into the dry sump though.

office monkey! I'm a draughtsman.

I am proud to annouce I am actually working on the Corrado properly now. Mk4 is all but sorted now and back to a 3.2 again. Bikes have taken a back seat whilst I wait for parts to become available, and the missus's Golf country is running fine after the mission to get it through it's MOT last year. So, Corrado time....where were we.. painted the block today, good old tin of POR15 Chevy orange came out of retirement. found out that we have some RAL2004 orange powder coat at work too, almost an exact match as it happens, how convenient :-) TT hubs on, bit of wood represeting where the strut needs to go. Stil not sure I can pull this off, the wheel seems to sit quite far forwards and I can't run any more castor than that unless I modify the turrrets. May go back to VR6 hubs. Then my mate came round in his new TT 3.2DSG. wanted to ty on his BBS sport designs I'd powder coated for him. thought it'd be rude not to try them on the corrado ;-) Then we tried one of my OZ's on his TT (mutli fitment) and he offered me a straight swap there and then! so I may be using these instead of the OZ's now, maybe.

just a note on oil coolers. remeber I said I couldn't get the front engine mount to fit due to my cooler? well I've just found out that the R32 oil cooler is bigger than the 2.8 one, probably why Jay managed to get his to fit and I didn't.

you can use a rallye box, but only if you get the right transfer box. and the only car I know of that has it is a skoda octavia elegance 4x4 1.8T

the ccoil packs and inlet manifold are different on an R32, that's why the wiring is different. they are deeper into the head, shorter. have a look at an audi 3.2. they have a really neat cable setup. I've just converted m 4motion to a 3.2 and used all the 3.2 cbale guides and red covers without having to cut any of the loom, I'll get you some pics got an R32 head, inlet, cams, coil packs and TB if you are interested?

DIN is the aerture size, ISO is the wiring standard,

what did you do with the chassis number? just bin it?

My dad's got a 110. Did the cam belt on it this week. nightmare of a job, never again. cam belt interval was 40K for that particular model. as for mapping, a guy brought one to our RR day a couple of years back. it did 223bhp and over 300lbs.ft. still did 45mpg on the rollers!

look closely... there isn't even a hub in thereI just chucked the wheel in the arch to see what it'd look like. it's sat on a jack on the subframe.

i didn't mean you'd have to change your axle, I just thought I'd point out that mines different. they fit mine, but they may not fit yours you see.

Waiting for an intercooler to be fabricated last time I heard. all done and running other than that apparently.

i didn't mean push the cylinder! i meant he clutch arm. what do yo mean you can feel the bearing? please don't tell me you stuck your finger in there with the engine running!!!?

yeah, they fit ok. but I have arch work, and a totally different rear axle. got 8x18's on now, but with corrado friendly 215/35/18's, not 225/40/18's like the mk4 uses

i just KNEW it was going to be that thread as soon as I saw clubgti i the link.

yes, there will be a lot of resitance. you won't be able to just push it in by hand. at least you shouldn't.

take the slave cylinder out of the gearbox and see if you can manually lever the clutch arm over. see if it's enay different with the whole hydraulic side of things bypassed.

I know a VR flywheel weighs 18lbs, and I have a lightened (machined down) G60 flywheel here which weighs 10lbs. My VR6 alloy Fidanza flywheel weighs 6lbs. Check out Helix Autosport for clutches. I've been running an organic clutch for a few years and thought it was great, just upgraded to a sintered paddle clutch (haven't fitted it yet). I have all the parts you need but it's already provisionally sold to a member of this forum, I just need to get of my arse and get a postage price (which is annoying for you, as I live in York, and travel right past you to Redcar on a regular basis!)

or HG might have gone